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Dallas-based Matador Resources said Thursday that it has acquired Paloma Permian from Houston private equity firm EnCap Investments for $1.275 billion in cash. Baker Botts and Vinson & Elkins advised on the deal.
Kirkland & Ellis and Troutman Pepper Locke advised the parties in an all-stock transaction, adding 1.25 million net acres in South Texas for Houston-based Magnolia Oil & Gas.
Constance and consistency remained the nature of dealmaking last week, as Big Money continued to flow into infrastructure, energy projects and everything that supports data center development.
That and more in this edition of CDT Roundup.
Data centers and the power to run them remained a primary deal-driver in a 14-deal, $4.6 billion week, but the CDT deal targets themselves were global and rather eclectic.
That and more in this edition of CDT Roundup.
Lawyers in the Lone Star State celebrated the holiday week by working on deals involving the heavy stuff: midstream assets, bitcoin mining, Gulf Coast ammonia plants, offshore helicopters, offshore platforms, West Texas power plants and a Fort Worth rail transloading company.
The 11 transactions for the week ending June 27 included deals involving heavy construction, data security, robotics, renewable power assets, Rare Earth materials and offshore aviation services. They were together valued at $46 billion — with the heavy number provided by an inaugural $25 billion debt offering by the Space Exploration Technologies Corporation.
That and more in this edition of CDT Roundup.
Denver-based mining company Energy Fuels said that it has acquired German magnetics company Vacuumschmelze, also known as VAC, from private equity firm Ara Partners for about $1.9 billion in cash and stock.
Dentons, Dorsey & Whitney, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer and Latham & Watkins advised on the deal.
Dallas-based infrastructure materials firm Arcosa announced Monday that it is being acquired by CRH, a building supply firm based in Ireland. Baker Botts, Gibson Dunn and Kirkland & Ellis advised the various parties.
For the week ended June 20, the CDT Roundup reported on 11 deals with a disclosed value of $68.1 billion. Those are numbers that come naturally when SpaceX is involved.
Aside from a $60 billion SPCX stock swap for a San Francisco AI startup, there was an abundance of other billion-dollar deals. Pizza Hut had two of them, in fact.
That and more in this edition of CDT Roundup.
Bill Nelson has joined Latham & Watkins in Houston after seven and a half years at A&O Shearman, including more than two years as the managing partner in the firm’s Houston office.
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